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Olnex

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Registered: 2008-04-10

Posts: 89

Batch convert PSD to PNG

I am looking for a way to convert a lot of PSD files to PNG format, is there any application or command or script can do this? I also need to resize them when converting.

Thanks a lot!

Foucault

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From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2010-04-06

Posts: 214

Re: Batch convert PSD to PNG

I think you can use the convert program that ships along with imagemagick. I believe something like the following should suit your needs.

#!/bin/bash
for i in *psd
do
    name=${i%.psd}
    convert "$name.psd[0]" -scale XxY "$name.png"
done

The [0] is required. Otherwise convert will convert every single layer into a separate png file. More documentation about imagemagick here

Last edited by Foucault (2010-11-29 09:51:36)

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nXqd

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Registered: 2010-07-01

Posts: 173

Re: Batch convert PSD to PNG

I think you can use the convert program that ships along with imagemagick. I believe something like the following should suit your needs.

#!/bin/bash
for i in *psd
do
    name=${i%.psd}
    convert "$name.psd[0]" -scale XxY "$name.png"
done

The [0] is required. Otherwise convert will convert every single layer into a separate png file. More documentation about imagemagick here

Amazing to know there's such an amazing image tool like imagemagick on linux. Beside psd convert, there're a lot of magic uses with imagemagick

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skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Batch convert PSD to PNG

For future reference, it can be done with GIMP as well through one of the scripting interfaces (I recommend Python) or C plugins. It's not as fast as imagemagick when scripting, but it's far more powerful if one wants to leverage its depth. I do recommend imagemagick for fast, high quality batch jobs. As well, GIMP still lacks high color support, so if that's a real problem, then imagemagick is the better choice.

--EDIT--

That's deep color support, not high color support.

Last edited by skottish (2010-11-30 03:10:58)